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parsnip & star machine

@soowrites.bsky.social

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bilingual(🇬🇧🇰🇷) cellist/writer/lawyer poetry as contemporaneous reflection, contemplating such topics as expression, sensory inspiration, power and its abuse, community, healing & agency. sometimes painting I worked on this book: tinyurl.com/3kjjxabv

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parsnip & star machine @soowrites.bsky.social · Nov 18

From my parsnip soils I slowly rose
Small as gnats or just specs of dust or dirt itself
But in the fresh air and open space
Free to move, easily stunned

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parsnip & star machine @soowrites.bsky.social · 2h

Some days where I am unable to commit, I do not awaken;

Darkened inside my eyelid walls
A free-floating I slide into a direction;
a set, if you will.

I figure out my role based on what I can see of the relationships & the environment.

I am moving, constantly, in my #dreams,
Perhaps to make up.

parsnip & star machine @soowrites.bsky.social · 2h

Choices
Openness
Being

#poetry #poets #micropoetry #meditationprompts #meditation #poems

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parsnip & star machine @soowrites.bsky.social · 2h

Life certainly does require commitment.

#poems #micropoetry #poets #lifehack

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parsnip & star machine @soowrites.bsky.social · 4h

whimsical assertiveness
whimsy

non-threatening
secure

#poet #poets #whimsy

parsnip & star machine @soowrites.bsky.social · 5h

*could I imagine

parsnip & star machine @soowrites.bsky.social · 5h

Thank you, @maribean.bsky.social 💗🙏

parsnip & star machine @soowrites.bsky.social · 7h

We were fantasy-good.
So I don’t care if we were a kind of fantasy.
It was worth it. You made the minutes more bearable.
No greater or more effortless joy I could not imagine
Than simply to be connected with you.

#grief #poems #poetry #loss #poets #comfort

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parsnip & star machine @soowrites.bsky.social · 7h

We were legendary.
We’d never flaunt it,
But we were so complete together.
Didn’t matter if somebody didn’t;
You knew I was fully connected with you
And you with me.

It absolutely was worth the pain I am feeling right now. Do it again in a heartbeat. You opened Life up for me.

#grief #poetry

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parsnip & star machine @soowrites.bsky.social · 8h

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Hae Ji Cho @haejicho.bsky.social · 8h

Having siblings is humiliating

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 9h

On National Coming Out Day, know that I will always be an ally to you — no matter where you are on your journey.

I know that times may be scary, but you are seen, safe, supported, and loved here in Illinois.

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parsnip & star machine @soowrites.bsky.social · 8h

Miss going hiking with the boys
Dala sweater finished
Outside is beautiful

#letterstomyself #grieving #deaths #comfort #poetry #micropoetry #poets #fall #autumnal

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Mat Pringle @matpringle.bsky.social · 1d

‘Spencer the Rover’ linocut print.

A folk ballad inspired print about a gallivanting Yorkshireman.

matpringleillustration.bigcartel.com/product/folk...

#BLOCTOBER2

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Asha @ashabuerk.bsky.social · 1d

That’s me! Thanks so much to everyone who’s supported our streams so far :) Come show up and show out for the last test week!!!! We’ll be live Tuesday, Friday, and Sunday

Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 1d

We’re about to enter our LAST WEEK of our livestream fundraising experiment.

I wanted to prove that campaign fundraising can be fun and transparent instead of being reliant on rich people.

ICYMI, here’s how it’s been going:

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parsnip & star machine @soowrites.bsky.social · 10h

Isn’t this what we’ve already done?

Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 12h

every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

“I’m worried about my community… I’m out here in a frog costume to show how ridiculous the notion that we’re violent terrorists is, and showcase how that narrative is wrong…”

Serious Q: is it too late to give this dude the Nobel Peace Prize? 🐸 🏆

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 1d

It’s actually Election Day tomorrow… in Louisiana!

I’m watching: the New Orleans sheriff race, and the New Orleans mayor’s race.

Both in my cheat sheet of elections to watch this fall!

boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...

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ACLU @aclu.org · 1d

NEW: Last night, the Senate passed a bill that reauthorizes addiction treatment and housing services for recently incarcerated people.

This is a crucial step toward ensuring people coming out of prison have the support they need.

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parsnip & star machine @soowrites.bsky.social · 1d

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

Nothing says “America First” like letting another country put an Air Force base in Idaho

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Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

Wall Street sells off as Trump hits China with more tariffs reut.rs/4oivLD9

Wall Street sells off as Trump hits China with more tariffs

The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq suffered their largest single-day percentage drops since April 10.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 1d

This is the way

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment

www.nytimes.com

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 2d

Credit where credit is due. The Democrats' message that the GOP shut down the government because they want to throw millions of people off healthcare has broken through. Two of my cousins who are NOT AT ALL tuned into national politics told me that this is why the government is shut down.

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 2d

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer. In his first teaching document Thursday, Leo confirms that he is in perfect lockstep with Pope Francis on matters of social injustice.

Pope Leo blasts economy that marginalizes poor while wealthy live in bubble of luxury

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer.

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parsnip & star machine @soowrites.bsky.social · 3d

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Aaron Cameron @thatbootlegguy.bsky.social · 4d

My wonderful neighbor keeps trying to get my mostly decorative dog (far left) excited about the beach, but I raised her better than that

Four dogs at the beach. Three are happy to be there. One is clearly not

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 3d

Good morning from the line outside the courthouse in the Eastern District of Virginia, where former FBI director James Comey is set to be arraigned on federal charges.

I’m here for @lawfaremedia.org.

Follow along for updates ⬇️

Federal courthouse in EDVA, with line of people out front and a guy holding a “show trial” sign

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 3d

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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